Allow multiple login sessions
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Krishan Taylor
Users need to be able to have multiple active login sessions because they often have to use CircleCI on both desktop and mobile devices.
I often find myself having to login on my phone in order to re-trigger failed builds (sometime from flaky tests, and more frequently from random CircleCI timeouts). This apparently logs me out of my desktop session. Given that the unauthorized page doesn't provide users with a login link or redirect back to the desired page after logging in (https://circleci.canny.io/cloud-feature-requests/p/redirect-to-login-page-when-viewing-pages-while-unauthenticated), managing CI from multiple devices is a very frustrating experience.
Neither of these should be issues in an age where people have to manage issues on their computer at work and during off hours on their phone. The initial response I received from support claimed that the single session is done intentionally for security purposes, but plenty of other secure applications allow for multiple sessions without incident.
Nathan Fish
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We resolve this issue and you should be able to have multiple sessions active. If you are not experiencing that please let us no. There may be some edge cases with Github were SSO has been enabled.
Luke Redpath
I don't know why this was changed but its very frustrating.
percyhanna
I'm curious why this was changed? Only allowing a single active session per user seems like a very antiquated pattern. In today's world of users having multiple devices (mobile phones, tablets, desktops, laptops), it's silly to remove all user sessions just because I've logged into another device. I consistently use GitHub + Circle CI on at least 3 separate devices, and this has made for an extremely frustrating experience using Circle CI.